CMW/C/MAR/CO/1 Observations finales concernant le rapport initial du Maroc, adoptées par le Comité à sa dix-neuvième session 37.Le Comité prend note des efforts déployés par l’État partie pour donner accès à tous les travailleurs migrants à l’enregistrement des naissances. Cependant, […]
By Ilse de Lange Herbert Baluku spent six years of his adult life in jail and was released from a South African deportation centre only after two urgent court applications. His only “crime” was not being able to prove citizenship […]
By Billy Ntaote MASERU — Eyob Asemie, a businessman of Ethiopian origin who had his Lesotho citizenship revoked is now stateless and appealing for intervention from the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR). He wants to regain his […]
An official crackdown on undocumented migrants in Tanzania has sparked a wave of attacks against Malawians living there, causing many to flee for home. In recent weeks, hundreds of returnees, some still recovering from the beatings they received, have been […]
Submission to 17th UPR session, reviewed on 22 October 2013 (document is undated), including information on legal reform and domestication of the international statelessness conventions, and on birth registration and preservation of identity. Download from OHCHR website.
Deux cents familles venues du Rwanda se sont installées dans une zone de la province du Nord-Kivu contrôlée par le Mouvement du 23-Mars (M23). S’agit-il de réfugiés rwandais ou de Tutsis congolais ? L’incertitude demeure et la polémique enfle. L’incertitude […]
The Ketebo ethnic group of Ikwoto county in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria state are petitioning the state’s parliament against “attempts to exclude” them from the list of ethnic communities living in the state and in the young nation. Read more.
Download: Angola Decreto executive no. 309-13 de 23 de setembro-Isencao de pagamnto do BI
Par Bernard R. L’information est sortie avec quasiment un mois de retard : le chanteur de raï algérien, marié à une marocaine, à obtenu, le 20 août 2013, la nationalité marocaine. L’occasion pour nous de revenir un peu sur les […]
Dear Mr. Ban Ki-moon: We, The People of Efik Kingdom, thank you for your profound interest and intervention in the Bakassi Peninsula matter. While not delving into the pros and cons of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rulings, we […]
By Anthony Kayanda Kigoma. An MP from the region has accused the government of targeting and harassing people from the region on pretext of nationality. As a result scores of them have been sent back to the country from Burundi […]
Opinion By Dimas Nkunda Just when we thought that our neighbour, Tanzania, was about to rethink its current policy of expelling other nationals from its soil, another problem came up. The latest news coming out of Tanzania is that some 25,000 […]